Pineapple-slicer.



G. L. FRASER.

PINEAPPLE SLICER. APP'LICATION FILED FEB. 12. 191B.

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L. FRASER. PINEAPPLE SLICER. APPLICATION FILED FEB 12, I9I8.

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G. L. FRASER.

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GEORGE LAYTON FRASER, OF HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, ASSIG-NOR TO CALI- FORNIA PACKING CORPORATION, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PINEAPPLE-SLIGER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented lVIay 14, 1918.

Application filed February 12, 1918. Serial No. 216,706.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LAYTON FRASER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pineapple-Slicers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of fruit slicing machines, and is particularly adapted for the slicing of pineapples.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple machine for this purpose, capable of rapid and effective work, the slicing-be ing accurate, with no waste, and the result uniform and attractive in appearance.

To this end my invention consists in the novel slicing machine which I shall hereinafter fully describe by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevationof my machine.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same partly in section, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a top-plan of the same, a portion of the top frame plate and a portion of the top-carrier being broken away.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

1 is a frame having a top plate 2 and a cross support 3, in which is journaled the carrier-shaft 4.

Upon the upper portion of this shaft is mounted the carrier which comprises a plurality of horizontally disposed members 5, forming a tier, the members being secured together by bolts 6 and their hubs 7 resting on one another successively, and keyed to the shaft 4 for revolution therewith as indicated at 8 in Fig. 2.

The hubs 7 are sufficiently thick to provide for peripheral spaces 9 between said members. This construction is the preferred, though not necessarily the only form, it being essential merely that the carrier be provided with a vertical series of peripheral spaces for the reception of the knives as will presently appear. But by having the carrier composed of independent members secured together, the unit may be readily built up and varied in size at will.

The uppermost member of the carrier is best formed as a plate, as seen in Fig. 3, but the remaining members are preferably formed as spiders as shown in said figure. Each member of the carrier unit has a plurality of holes made in it, here shown, for example, as six, though this number may be varied as desired. These holes are alined vertically throughout the tier of members, so that in the carrier there are six vertical pockets 10, the upper end of each pocket being adapted, during the revolution of the carrier to successively register with a feed opening 11 in the top plate 2 of the frame, and with the'overlying feed hopper 12, as seen in Fig. 2, and the lower end of each pocket being terminated by a frame plate 13, in which at one side is a discharge opening lat with which said pockets, during the revolution of the carrier, successively register, said opening 14c itself registering with the discharge chute 15.

Upon a revolving shaft 16 mountedin the frame 1 at one side, is a tier of spaced knives 17 in the form of disks, so disposed that they enter and revolve within the interspaces 9 of the carrier unit, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and intersect the path of revolution of the carrier pockets 10.

Motion is imparted as follows Power is led into the machine through a gear 18, and drive shaft 19. A bevel gear 20 on shaft 19 meshes with a bevel gear 21 on a vertical countershaft 22, which shaft carries a gear 23. The gear 23, carries a pin 24, comprised in a Geneva movement including the wheel 25 mounted on the carrier shaft 4, as seen in Fig. 4. Thus an intermittent or step by step revolution is imparted to the carrier unit, so that each of its pockets 10 comes to rest temporarily under the feed hopper 12 and over the discharge chute 15.

The gear 23 of the countershaft 22 meshes with a gear 26 on a countershaft 27, and this gear meshes with a pinion 28 on the knife shaft 16, as seen in Fig. 4, whereby a continuous rotary movement is imparted to the tier of knives 17.

The operation is as follows The fruit is fed from the hopper 12 to each of the pockets 10, as said pocket comes to rest under the hopper, and as a given fruit is carried around by the revolution of the carrier to the sphere of action of the knife tier 17, it is sliced horizontally; and when the sliced fruit reaches the discharge chute 15, it drops therein, the discharging pocket 10 being temporarily at rest there over; while at the opposite side a receiving pocket is temporarily at rest under the feed hopper 12.

The object in making the uppermost member of'the carrier unit'a disk, instead of a spider, is to revent the fruit from catching between the arms of a spiderlike, disk, and. clogging the machine. As it is, the fruit resting on the top disk is accurately moved, without injury, into its pocket.

I claim 1. A machinefor the described purpose, comprisingav carrierv with a series of peripheral spaces, and with fruit-receiving pockets traversing said spaces; a series of spaced knives adapted to enter said spaces and intersect the carrier pockets; means for feeding the fruit to successive pockets; delivery means for receiving the sliced .9 fruit from successive pockets; and means for imparting a step by step revoluble movement to the carrier to cause it to come to restunder the feeding means and over the delivery means.

2-. A machine comprising a revoluble carrier with a series ofperipheral spaces, and-With fruitreceiving pockets traversing said spaces;a revoluble series of spaced knives adapted to enter said spaces and intersect the path of revolution of the'pockets; means for rctating saidzknife series; means for feeding the fruit. to successive pockets; deliveryfor the described purpose, I

means for receiving the sliced fruit from successive pockets; and means for imparting a stepby steprevoluble movement to the carrier to cause it to come to rest under the feeding means and over the delivery means.

3. A machine for the described purpose, comprising a revoluble carrier with a series of peripheral spaces, and with fruit-receiving pockets traversing said spaces; a rotating series of spacedknives. adapted to1en ter the carrier spaces and traverse the path of revolution of the carrier pockets; means In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE LAYTON FRASER. Witnesses;

WM. F. Boorrn,

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